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Recent Examples of railroad
Descendants of Mary Lily Kenan – Henry Flagler’s third wife – continue the tradition begun in 1895, when the railroad magnate built the Palm Beach Inn on the site to complement his nearby Royal Poinciana Hotel.
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Thomas Swick, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Local officials have spent 30 years trying to develop a trail, either over private land owned by a religious foundation or by working with a railroad company.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
With as many musical miles beneath her feet as those lines of railroad track, Giddens reveals in a telephone interview what brought her back around to her roots in the folk music of the Carolinas.
—Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911.
—Loretta Lynch, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2025
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Thomas Swick, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Local officials have spent 30 years trying to develop a trail, either over private land owned by a religious foundation or by working with a railroad company.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
With as many musical miles beneath her feet as those lines of railroad track, Giddens reveals in a telephone interview what brought her back around to her roots in the folk music of the Carolinas.
—Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911.
—Loretta Lynch, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad
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The match concluded a wild road trip that saw Sporting play three road matches in eight days.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2025
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Clark helped the Fever snap a seven-year playoff drought as Indiana shattered league records for home attendance, road attendance and total attendance.—
Michael Marot,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
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Angels Flight announces price hike as iconic L.A. railway becomes latest victim of inflation.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The Rail Baltica project, designed to link the Baltic capitals with a European-gauge railway from Tallinn to Warsaw, has become all the more important due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, but the delay means that Latvia's share of the project may not be completed before 2035.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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